A ringing phone jolted me awake from a fitful, newborn-interrupted sleep. It took me a few moments to realize who was even on the other end of the phone. When I realized who it was, I was angry; angry that my sleep had been interrupted by a woman who calls me just to tell me I…
I read a post on wordpress that asked for solutions to the question – what should the government do with the ~248,000 foreclosed homes it now owns? Lots of opinions (654, the last time I looked) are posted on the article on MSNBC. But the one that intrigued me the most was this one from…
The 10th Anniversary of September 11th is coming up and there is a nationwide movement to remember this tragedy with a day of service. The National Park Service has plenty of opportunities to participate in this day of service, no matter where you live in the US. We have visited many, many National Parks and…
One of my summer projects was to recover the chair cushions for our outdoor furniture with this beautiful fabric I found earlier this Spring. It took me awhile to get to it – because I wanted to finish the kids shorts (that I started last summer) and a few other projects that had been hanging…